What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Trump’s Lawless State Just Got the Court’s Blessing — and America’s Soul Is On the Line
The Supreme Court ruled last week that Trump can continue to break the law — both US and international law — by having his secret police agents snatch people off American streets and “disappear” them into immigration prisons and then deport them to foreign concentration camps.
Modernization Theory: The Key to Understanding the GOP’s Hatred of the Middle Class
A Pew poll published last week finds that 59% of Americans say the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that cuts taxes for billionaires and raises them for working-class people “would hurt lower-income people and 51% think it would hurt middle-income people.”
Alligator Alcatraz Isn’t Just a Prison. It’s a Mirror. And It’s Asking Us: Who Are We, Really?
When Louise and I lived in Germany in 1986/87, we visited Dachau with our family. The crematoriums shocked our children, but even more so because this was simply a “detention facility” and not one of Hitler’s death camps. The ovens were for those who had been worked to death or killed by cholera.
Trump’s Tax Cuts Come with a Body Count — Starting with Grandma
Societies are typically organized along one of two lines: “We” or “Me.” We societies drive wealth and rights from the bottom up; Me societies do it from the top down, much like the kingdoms of old.
James Carville Is Right to Panic — Because Trump’s Next Power Grab Doesn’t Need a Mob
James Carville isn’t a man prone to panic, but when he says, “I would not put it at all past [Trump] to try to call martial law or declare that there’s some kind of national emergency,” around next year’s elections it’s time to sit up straight.
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I have also thought of this. I also wonder if the seeming rise of ADHD and neurodivergence could possibly be linked to an evolutionary response to climate change, as in We are the Weather.